- A truly unique concept, ITP is the first baseball simulation role-playing genre combination on the market!

- Based on the highly realistic and award-winning baseball simulation engine Out of the Park Baseball. You may even import OOTP 5 leagues and start your playing career there!

- Create you character from scratch, or import pre-defined characters. You can also share your characters with your friends or with the ITP community.

- Character creation includes RPG attributes (Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Constitution, Charisma, Luck and Personality class) and baseball attributes. Allocate skill points on various baseball abilities, depending on the difficulty level.

- Start your career as either a position player or pitcher. Do you want to be a hard hitting first baseman, a flame-throwing closer or even a durable knuckle-baller? Or do you prefer the contact hitting, slick fielding shortstop? It's all possible with ITP!

- Once the character creation process in complete, you will enter the first year player draft. If you are lucky, you will be selected in the earlier rounds and receive a nice signing bonus.

- After the draft, you get to your virtual baseball town. Here you can find the following places:

Baseball is now your profession and here is your new place of business, where you have to prove that you can not only play the game but also match up to the competition. If there is a game on the current day, it will be displayed on the grass. If you are a starting pitcher, your turn in the rotation will be highlighted as well.

Here you can get info on everything that is related to your character. Your stats, ratings, awards, equipment - it's all here. Also, this is the place where you can read baseball-related books, an especially important task for pitchers. Also, once you made it to The Show, here is where you can track the price of your rookie card as it value increases, based upon your performance in the Big Leagues.

Spend your hard-earned money here! The sports store gets weekly stock updates, and you can find everything here that a professional baseball player needs. ITP features hundreds of baseball items, but don't expect the famous Wonderboy Bat to be in stock all the time! You may also sell your own equipment here, if you want to replace it.

Baseball players need to work out, and this is the place to be in ITP if you want to shape your body through workout exercises. The right training will help you develop your ratings faster; or if your age is nearing the late 30's, a balanced workout will help you to better maintain your skills.

This is where the money talk takes place. You negotiate your contracts with team officials here. The Front Office is also the place where you can find loads of information about your current organization, like the current roster, projected lineups, statistics, league leaders and more.

The internet cafe features the best of the internet, the ITPNET. Here you can visit the online auction house BBay, where you may bid on baseball items or sell your own. Also, the league website is available via the terminals in the café; the league website provides you with every bit of information that you can imagine about the league in which you are playing.

Frustrated about an 0 for 5 night? Stop in at The Fiddlers for some much needed rest and relaxation and improve your mood with a few drinks. But beware, if you lack self-control and drink too much, you will probably have the next 0-fer the coming day.

- When playing a game you have total control at the plate or on the mound. Eight different options are at your fingertips, from swing for the fences to hit the batter with a pitch.

- Your career path depends on your workout, the ability to spend your money wisely, your talent and of course, good luck. A torn rotator cuff can threaten any promising career in a hurry! Getting traded to a last place team sure doesn't help your chances for a Ring either.

- The goal of the game is to have a long and productive big league career and therefore increase the value of your Rookie Card! Will you make the Hall of Fame? After you decided to put your glove away and retire, you may start a new career in the same league!